A Replica Me-262 with 'Original Flair' and the Ace You Might Not Have Heard About Yet 

Right there, german humor 😁

I know the interview. There was allways an interest in playing down those magnificant german soldiers. They where victorious in many ways. It was only the mass that brought them down. The best 100 german fighter pilot shot down over 10.000 !!! enemy aircraft. Surely all sitting ducks. What about the about 25.000 russian tanks from which about 2.500 allready whereT 34s when we "attacked" the UDSSR? On the german side there where 3.500 tanks up to Panzer IV. How was this over all 10 : 1 ratio achieved? We had the better men. Thats the answer.

Gunther Rall was such a Character, I could listen to him talk for ages . RIP

@@zorngottes1778 They fought for an indescribably evil government.

​@@zorngottes1778take it easy on the 1 to 10 ratio. Its been repeated but not a single thought put into it. German losses in aircraft alone was over 116,000 compared to Soviet 106,000. German tank losses were 68,000 compared to Soviet 82,000. German KIA was 6 million and add another 2 million of their axis allies and the total number is 8 million the same as Soviet 8 million KIA. Over 80% of German losses were in the eastern front. The target rich environment was soon in the sights of Russian IL-2 pilots, IS-2 tankers and millions of PPsH wielding soldiers that by 1942 German high command knew it was over even two years before D-Day .. I don't see anything about 1 to ten ratio no matter which way you try to spin it. The worst movie ever made keeping the old stereotype was Enemy At The Gates where soldiers were thrown in makeshift boats to run across a river against Stuka attack only if surviving that told to get in line one for a rifle and another for bullets and then immediately without rest thrown into a mindless human wave attack with a single NKVD machine gunned to shoot an entire company should they decide to retreat. Not only is it insulting to history as it never happened but you have to be a moron to try to follow such an order nevermind convince an entire company of its good idea. Order #227 did exist from June 1942 til October of that same year. Rear line troops stopped 2 million sending them back to their unit without punishment while 40,000 were sent to penal battalion and 10,000 who were executed not only ran from their post but either killed their comrades in the process or joined the axis (in short they had it coming). Germans executed ten times as many off record with countless bodies dangling from city lamp posts to the shock of American forces who were tasked to clear city by city village by village. And that whole thing about one with a rifle and another with a bullet is also idiotic. Soviet Union amassed an army of 34 million men (rotation wise), produced over 28 million firearms and made fife tumes as many automated weapons as Germany. At no point was there a shortage of weapons..ammo in some small sectors was in short supply but that's always been a problem with every army. German losses have been grossly underestimated for the last 79 years while Russian overestimated and you can thank that on anti Russian hysteria and false claims that have never been questioned especially during the height of the cold war unless you wanted to be branded a communist only for trying to keep history honest. Today there is zero excuse for sloppy stupid ignorance when there is abundance if resources. I have travelledbrhe world and been to countless museums and have studied the eastern front for over two decades interviewing countless ww2 veterans. One thing that has always stood out to me was how well both Americans and Russians spoke of one another during that time. There wasn't much boasting but rather a true comradery...i hope to get back to those times one day.

I saw that Zero when I visited as a Kid in the 70s. 🇦🇺👍

The Dornier Do-335 Pfeil (Arrow) definitely wants to kill you and everything else it can. Thankfully, it arrived too late to be useful.

Nope. They had two operational squadrons piloted completely by aces.

well our wheelbarrow has a backwheel of an antonov an2

@@mischi9203that is perfect.

An interesting little related tidbit.... google the quote "Theo, I've just used up all my ammunition. I'm going to ram. Good bye. See you in Valhalla."

I heard of him when I was playing Aces over Europe, a flight sim game from the early 90's. Various aces, like Galland, Rall, Nowotny, et al would randomly pop up and make my day difficult. If they shot you down, you learned their name after you died. If you shot them down, you would get a congratulatory message. I remember Weissenberger as the most difficult opponent I had to deal with. It was almost as if the computer was cheating, he was so hard to counter. If he got on my tail, I'd shrug my shoulders and wait for the end.

@@ianhelyar6383 Man I played so many hours of Aces Over Europe and Aces of the Pacific...

There were several German pilots with kill counts over 200, and even a couple over 300

Erich Hartmann was the highest scoring with 352 confirmed. If memory serves there several night fighter pilots with higher than 100 confirmed kills that flew the ME 110. She is a much maligned aircraft because she did not, could not stand up to the single engined Spits and Hurris, but in all honesty the 110 was a solid aircraft, especially at night.

The 110 was mediocre. Good tactics were required to be successful. The Beaufighter, Mosquito, and P-61 Widow were radically better twin engine heavy/night fighters.

Perhaps you should read what Captain Eric Winkle Brown said about the 110, and considering he actually flew and evaluated it instead of reading a book, I will listen to him before I even consider what you say.

@@Wookie120 same thought here. The Me110 was a versatile platform.

He is not correct !!!!

That’s what I like to see too! Gonna switch it up for the next few vids 😎

Look the germans beat the.limeys.to.the modern jet no excuses

@@jimwhalen5675 Gloster E28/39 jet first flight 15 May 1941, ME 262 first flight 18th July 1942 .

@@jimwhalen5675 A blingingly stupid and simplistic comment in every way.

Heinkel 178 was the first jet to fly, pilot was Erich Warsitz.

@@oliabid-price4517 Absolutely true - using a Heinkel built CENTRIFUGAL compressor jet engine - based on Whittle’s patents, which were in the public domain by 1939.

Yes! And it’s in great condition also. It’s outside though so we’re waiting for it to cool off some. I’ll do that vid in the fall

Well the Messerschmidt foundation in germany felt they were good enought to be given a continuation number and accepted them as something other than a mere replica

Thankfully that is the history of many WW2 german weapons. The Panther being a good example - the engineers KNEW the final drives where to weak (The Panther had "bulked out a bit" from a Sofiline weight class to something closer to Brendan Fraser in "The Whale") and had a fix (Use the Tiger finals) but where not allowed to do that (They also wanted to add some more vision elements for the gunner...)

Rolls Royce Nene. Mig 15 had an engine based off of a licensed one.

@@zippytpinhead847 Rolls Royce Dart had a two stage centrifugal compressor, served on the Fokker Friendship well into the 1970's and other types.

True, the centrifugal jet engine is great for generators, turboprops etc. Just not high performance jets

The Krummlauf - it was a cover up. Bertha (the wife of a weaponsmith working on Stg's) had sat on a couple of barrels. And being a tad on the big side... Now it was either find a good explanation of visit the eastern front. And so the Krummlauf was born

Many of the turbine engines used on helicopters are of the centrifugal type, more efficient and as it is not being used in a high forward speed situation, aerodynamics not being critical, it's compact configuration is fine.

@@vumba1331 Gas turbine engines using centrifugal compressors are less efficient than those that use axial compressors. Since all turbine engines require intake air to be subsonic, the speed of the aircraft is irrelevant except to the airframe designers who must insure that the compressor always sees subsonic flow.

@@oldtugs That's interesting because centrifugal compressors are more efficient, more compression of the air with the same amount of fuel results in more thrust and hence you can get more power from a more compact unit. The Aeriel 1D1 uses a centrifugal compressor for its main stage with an axial for the feed air.

@@oldtugs On helicopters size is an issue so a compact, efficient power unit is important and our neighbour's helicopter was of such a configuration and it is amazing how small it was and what the helicopter could carry, 4 passengers plus a load. Perfect for hunters.

@@vumba1331 they are not more efficient but have a single radial compressore stage has a higher compression ratio than a single axial compressor stage.

excuse me what

During the war he was said one Me262 was worth 5 Bf 109s as an interceptor.

@@HaVoC117X More like needed the service of 5 to safely land or take off

It’s not wrong. It’s a wide-angle lens on the camera, making it appear elongated.